cut-in, n.
[See cut v. 55.]
1. An act of cutting in: in senses of the verb (see cut v. 55).
| 1883 Referee 17 June 7/4 (Farmer), I am anxious to have a cut in and get a big advertisement for nothing. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 21 June 9/2 Herminius himself, with all his weight, is likely to have a cut in for the same race. 1920 F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise (1921) i. ii. 62 The cut-in system at dances. 1931 I. L. Reeves Ol' Rum River 182 Others within the organization will think they are entitled to a cut-in should the brewery attempt at any time to make anything other than near-beer. 1939 Chatelaine May 35/3 When I see a ‘debbie’ who never dances more than halfway round the ballroom without a cut-in, I make this mental note:..she'll soon be among the ‘young marrieds’. 1953 Time 23 Feb., It was a world where..cut-ins (giving a performer a share of a song's profits)..were standing operating procedure. 1958 Listener 6 Nov. 731/1 He's still going to get to the petrol pump by a neat cut-in. |
2. Cinemat. A ‘leader’ inserted into a film sequence. In full cut-in leader. Also, an interposed scene.
| 1913 E. W. Sargent Technique Photoplay (ed. 2) ii. 15 All other leaders have been between scenes, but this is right in the middle, so it is known as a ‘cut-in leader’, because it is cut into the scene. Ibid. vii. 50 The quoted leader is handy, but it should not be used too much, and there is a growing tendency to use two and even three cut-in leaders in one scene. A straight leader and one cut-in is about the limit. A leader or a cut-in, but not both should suffice. 1921 Lescarboura Cinema Handbk. 21 Cut-in, anything inserted in a scene which breaks its continuity. 1953 K. Reisz Technique Film Editing ii. 190 The cut-in of the crowd..was necessary to indicate the passage of time while the horses file out of the paddock. 1961 G. Millerson Telev. Production 302 The cut-in provides shock treatment. A cut-in to a field of thistles would be a dynamic introduction to a programme on ‘The Weed Menace’. |
3. A device for starting an engine by completing the electric circuit.
| 1921 Motor Electrical Man. viii. 109 In some switch-boxes the automatic cut-in and cut-out for the charging circuit is fitted. 1924 A. W. Judge et al. Mod. Motor Cars III. 74 A more common form of cut-in is that depending upon electro⁓magnetic action. Ibid. 76 There are many other forms of electrical, thermostatic, and mechanical ‘cut-out’ and ‘cut-in’ devices for the battery-dynamo and battery-ignition circuits. |